# How to Make AI Agents Accurate: Stop Treating Memory Like Chat History

Source: https://dinand.com/publications/agent-memory-and-state/
Author: Dinand Tinholt
Published: 2025-12-17

> A practical approach to keeping an agent’s constraints and current decisions clear during long sessions.

Article overview

This piece proposes managing explicit project state as a way to reduce drift in long-running agent sessions. It describes compact records of architectural decisions, constraints and current work, with periodic snapshots and resets. It also examines the risks of stale records and overly rigid rules. The article presents a working practice for building with agents.

[Read the full article on Medium ](https://medium.com/@tinholt/how-to-make-ai-agents-accurate-stop-treating-memory-like-chat-history-40eb8e0ea437)

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